This Edition Join our Birthday celebration Experience three Great Performers Madeleine Peyroux covers Ray Charles MusicPlay Children’s Festival January February March 2014 PP320258/0121 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Bear with Me – p5 Wishhh! – p5 Nests – p5 Hansel & Gretel and Magic Piano & Peter & the Wolf – p4 The Tale of Peter The Chopin Shorts Whack, bang, crash! Rabbit – p4 p4 Paint What You Hear p5 p5 Workshops Workshops – p5 JANUARY Workshops – p5 16 p5 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 29 01 02 Til the Black Melbourne Albare: Lady Sings Recital Centre’s The Road Ahead p6 5th Birthday p6 Celebration p20–21 FEBRUARY 03 04 05 08 09 Myth of the Cave If On a Winter’s London Klezmer Mostly Mozart: Alchemy Alchemy p6 Night a Traveler Quartet The Masters p9 p9 p8 p8 p9 Daniel Hope Landscapes – p7 External & Internal 10 11 12 p9 13 14 15 ACO VirtUal ACO VirtUal ACO VirtUal ACO VirtUal ACO VirtUal p10 p10 p10 p10 p10 Kid Creole & Bach Magnificat Bach Magnificat the Coconuts p12 p12 p11 18 19 20 21 22 23 Ólafur Arnalds Kelemen Quartet Timo-Veikko Valve Top Class Music St David’s Day Música Española Mozart’s p13 p14 p15 Performance & Concert p16 Last Concerto Massimo Scattolin Investigation – p15 p16 Kelemen Quartet p17 p14 Festival of Beautiful p14 Sound 24 25 26 p15 27 28 01 02 Rebuild The Fire of Love An English Fancie To Sleep To Dream To Sleep To Dream To Sleep To Dream p17 p18 p18 p22 p22 p22 Madeleine Peyroux – Madeleine Peyroux – Balanescu Quartet To Russia With Love The Blue Room The Blue Room ‘Maria T’ p24 MARCH p19 p19 p23 03 04 05 07 08 09 To Sleep To Dream To Sleep To Dream Top Class 2014 Guitar Impressions Billy Tea to Burgers p22 p22 Dance & VET Dance p26 p27 Young Kwon Choi p26 Continuum p24 The Dilettante Hater’s p27 Roberto Fonseca Eastern Europe 10 p25 11 p26 12 13 14 15 16 The English Cello Sonatas with Julia Lezhneva The New Palm Court The Company Sitkovetsky Trio Indian Classical Songbook Rachel Johnston p29 Orchestra with of Pianos 1 p33 Instrumental Series p28 p28 Stone of the Sun Eugene Friesen p32 p33 Ears Wide Open #1 p31 p31 p28 Viva Vivaldi! 17 18 19 p32 20 21 22 23 Samuel Wagan Mr Playford Requests Karen Gomyo & Cast Away Lyric Watson Smoke the Pleasure… Slava Grigoryan p36 p36 Encrypted Whispers p34 p35 Last Words p34 Sitkovetsky Trio p36 p33 24 25 26 27 29 2 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • The information in this brochure is correct at time of printing. Welcome Mary Vallentine AO CEO, Melbourne Recital Centre 2014 is a very special year for Melbourne Recital Centre. On Saturday 8 February we invite you to celebrate our Fifth Birthday with us at a free day of live music, games, food and fun for the entire family. It’s the perfect opportunity to enjoy some of the brilliant artists who perform here as we turn Elisabeth Murdoch Hall into a treat-filled musical ‘chocolate box’ or explore behind the scenes on a backstage tour. You’ll get your own chance to perform in The Big Sing – a 1200-strong community choir to raise the roof on Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. Everyone is welcome at Melbourne’s best place to hear, play and discover live music. Please join us. This is just the start of a year of celebration – and of thanking you for your support so far. This month we farewell Principal Partner, Audi Australia Pty Ltd. The company is now focussing its cultural partnership program on theatre, film and contemporary art. Audi’s five-year partnership has been integral to the Centre’s growth, particularly to the development of our expansive and diverse concert program that now offers the Victorian community many more opportunities to experience great music in the Centre’s exceptional spaces. We are very excited to report however, that Audi Centre Melbourne together with Audi Centre Brighton will come on board as new partners to continue the relationship. On behalf of our audiences and everyone at Melbourne Recital Centre, we thank Audi for its wonderful support. Our Summer concert calendar is packed with concerts for every taste, from spectacular Latin jazz pianist Roberto Fonseca to the vocal pyrotechnics of Great Performer soprano Julia Lezhneva. In January MusicPlay our annual children’s festival returns. This delightful weekend has become a LUISA PASTRELLO Country General Manager tradition for many families. High technology meets music in ACO Virtual, Australia & New Zealand, an immersive environment where you can interact with the virtuoso Etihad Airways musicians of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, projected on screens Etihad Airways invites Melbourne Recital Centre around the Salon. The power of the imagination is demonstrated patrons to take their love of arts and culture by Earfilms’To Sleep To Dream, a cinematic story-telling and abroad with the launch of two new European surround sound experience for your ears and mind’s eye. destinations – Amsterdam and Belgrade. The new services offer Victorians daily one-stop It has to be heard to be believed. connections from Melbourne to these great I look forward to seeing you at the Centre soon. cities and bring to 19 the number of destinations in the Etihad Airways European network. Warm regards Enroute to Europe Etihad Airways offers guests a luxury travel experience which has earned it the title of ‘World’s Leading Airline’ at the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 World Travel Awards and a clean sweep of the First Class category in the 2012 and 2013 Skytrax World Airline Awards. FOR BOOKINGS VISIT MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU OR PHONE 03 9699 3333 3 CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 16–18 JANUARY 2014 MusicPlay is an exciting summer holiday music festival for children and families. Over several days MusicPlay aims to encourage young music lovers and their families to immerse themselves in music through an array of interactive concerts and musical activities. 3+ 4+ YEARS YEARS 6+ Hansel & Gretel YEARS and The Tale of Peter & Peter Rabbit Magic Piano & ‘Nibble, nibble, little mouse, who is nibbling at my house?’ Bring the kids and grandkids The Chopin the Wolf along for an exciting concert-adaptation of a It’s a wolf-eats-duck world. But it’s a world in classic fairy tale. Larry Bell’s version of Hansel which little boys can find extraordinary courage & Gretel for narrator and orchestra is based on Shorts with a little help from a crazy bird and a the dark and enchanting story originally told The delightful Magic Piano animation tells dreamy duck. Join us to experience Prokofiev’s by the Brothers Grimm. Designed to introduce the story of young Anna and Chip-Chip, who magical music accompanying the Academy kids to the instruments of the orchestra with ® embark on an adventure of discovery aboard Award -winning animation by BreakThru Films. a vibrant and thrilling score, Hansel & Gretel a magic, flying piano. The film is presented This children’s classic has been a window into follows the story of these two young characters, alongside The Chopin Shorts, four short the world of orchestral music for millions who who, after being abandoned by their animated films with cute characters and have learned to recognise the distinct sounds stepmother and father, embark on a perilous slapstick humour. The Chopin Etudes that of instruments associated with each character. adventure and triumph over evil. Also on this make up the soundtrack to both Magic Piano program, the delightful Tale of Peter Rabbit & The Chopin Shorts are performed live on INFORMATION with guest narrator Shane Jacobson. stage by gifted local pianists. This is a wonderful opportunity for children of all Sat 18 January 11am INFORMATION ages to experience Chopin’s music within the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (45-mins no interval) unique live setting of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. Brett Kelly conductor Thu 16 January 11am Peter & the Wolf Orchestra Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (45-mins no interval) INFORMATION Tickets $23 BELL Hansel & Gretel O’BOYLE Tale of Peter Rabbit Fri 17 January 10.30am & 12 noon Brett Kelly conductor Elisabeth Murdoch Hall (45-mins no interval) Hansel & Gretel Orchestra Amir Farid & Stefan Cassomenos piano Shane Jacobson narrator See page 37 for Tickets $18 Tickets $23 ticketing details 4 MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE • MUsICPLAy An intimate concert especially for younger bears, their children (and their grown-ups). Workshops Bear Bear with Me is playful, ukulele-ful and made for joining in. It’s about looking after, and Paint What You Hear being looked after. Sometimes it’s no picnic with Me being a teddy bear but being cherished This workshop invites children to respond to makes the rougher moments bearable. live music using crayons and paint, creating Bear with Me plays with the warm and fuzzy, a group canvas while discovering musical exploring the joy and turmoil of everyday life elements such as volume, pitch and mood. through music and performance. Each child will take home a part of the canvas. Thu 16 January 11.45am & 1.45pm (One hour) INFORMATION Tickets $15 Suitable for children ages 5–12 years. 3-6 Thu 16 January 9.30am, 12.30pm & 2pm *BYO smock YEARS Salon (45-mins no interval) Tyrone & Lesley performers Ukulele Workshop David Megarrity writer/composer/performer Join ukulele legend Mike Jackson for a Samuel Vincent composer/arranger/performer beginners lesson on this classic instrument. Tickets $23 With only 3 simple chords to master, you’ll be playing songs in no time! Ukuleles will be provided but bring your own if you have one. Fri 17 January 12.15pm (One hour) Tickets $15 Wishhh! Suitable for ages 4–11 years Grab your suitcases and hoist the Pocketfool Ocarina Workshop sail.